c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics." — Glenn Beck
"To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher." — Arthur Holly Compton
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." — Simone de Beauvoir
"I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing." — Michael Ealy
"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms." — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"The faith I was born into formed me." — Huston Smith
"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." — W. H. Auden
"And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it." — Adam Weishaupt
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." — Booker T. Washington
"The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years." — Jacques Yves Cousteau
"I'm way better in person than I am on things like Twitter. I know Twitter is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth." — Nicole Scherzinger
"I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what." — Miley Cyrus
"Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart." — Miuccia Prada
"I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do." — Will Rogers
"I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone." — Danny DeVito
"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble." — Shahrukh Khan
"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes." — Erma Bombeck
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" — T. S. Eliot
"Many great actions are committed in small struggles." — Victor Hugo
"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." — William Arthur Ward
"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time." — Paul Hawken
"Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal." — Donald Rumsfeld
"There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it." — Laura San Giacomo
"You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do." — Steve Martin
"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer." — Robert E. Howard
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." — Benjamin Franklin
"When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble." — Kevin Costner
"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?" — Dennis Prager
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." — Jim Morrison
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen." — Lukas Foss
"I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star." — Edgar Winter
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." — Colin Powell
"The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life." — Carl Lewis
"Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship." — Dave Barry
"When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'" — Mitt Romney
"Imagination decides everything." — Blaise Pascal
"Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters." — Eric Liu
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." — Thomas Szasz
"I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere." — Maud Welzen
"This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war." — Jack Nicklaus
"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok." — Shaquille O'Neal
"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President." — Hunter S. Thompson
"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money." — Mason Cooley
"Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing." — Natalie Gulbis
"I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous." — Alanis Morissette
"Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike." — James Cagney
"I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory." — Elie Wiesel
"All money is a matter of belief." — Adam Smith
"The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar." — Jimi Hendrix
"I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible." — Boyd Rice
"At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer." — Bryan Cranston
"They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher." — Louis Farrakhan
"Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian." — E. Stanley Jones
"I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact." — Steven Gerrard
"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul." — George Sand
"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth." — Havelock Ellis
"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?" — Lech Walesa
"You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't." — Jack Nicklaus
"Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose." — Beverley Nichols
"It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there." — Haley Reinhart
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on." — Carl Sandburg
"For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family." — Dennis Prager
"The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" — Bette Davis
"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful." — Sylvester Stallone
"Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap." — Bob Graham
"Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?" — David Byrne
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order." — Will Durant
"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation." — Jimmy Carter
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." — Betty Friedan
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." — Nelson Mandela
"Virtue can only flourish among equals." — Mary Wollstonecraft
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes." — Pope John Paul II
"I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future." — Billy Graham
"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." — Larry Wall
"Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law." — William Hague
"Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience." — Paul Getty
"I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation." — Jim DeMint
"A fool and her money are soon courted." — Helen Rowland
"What is a society without a heroic dimension?" — Jean Baudrillard
"All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place." — Mitt Romney
"The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money." — Shimon Peres
"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity." — B. R. Ambedkar
"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention." — Deepak Chopra
"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph." — Imogen Cunningham
"What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way." — Octavia Butler
"I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do." — J. J. Abrams
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another." — Voltaire
"Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear." — Dan Millman
"In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek." — James Marsters
"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool." — Andre Maurois
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work." — Jacques Yves Cousteau
"Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace." — Serj Tankian
"People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic." — Lee Westwood
"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration." — Alanis Morissette
"Walking is man's best medicine." — Hippocrates
"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there." — Fred Allen
"For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families." — Patrick J. Kennedy
"Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account." — Chris Christie
"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination." — Tycho Brahe
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" — Audrey Hepburn
"The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did." — Rand Paul
"We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again." — Sheena Easton
"I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness." — Julie Burchill
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." — Frank Lloyd Wright
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself." — E. M. Forster
"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out." — Harry Browne
"I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest." — Eva Longoria
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." — Cesare Pavese
"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people." — Peter Jennings
"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants." — Catherine Deneuve
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen
"So much of design is context." — Steve Madden
"The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise." — Jose Serrano
"When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible." — Claudio Reyna
"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me." — Martina Hingis
"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired." — Stephen Hawking
"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature." — David Hare
"To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better." — Mike DeWine
"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life." — Havelock Ellis
"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into." — Thomas Fuller
"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man." — Norman Schwarzkopf
"Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular." — Danica McKellar
"Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen." — Carol Ann Duffy
"You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American." — Emeril Lagasse
"I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies." — Emma Roberts
"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy." — Jim Carrey
"It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well." — Giancarlo Esposito
"I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball." — Michael Jordan
"We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again." — Barack Obama
"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere." — Major Owens
"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom." — Nina Totenberg
"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds." — Thurgood Marshall
"No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship." — Francis Marion Crawford
"I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant." — Tiffeny Milbrett
"Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key." — Jack LaLanne
"The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all." — Adam Osborne
"Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America." — Henry Bonilla
"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone." — Elizabeth Bowen
"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases." — George Santayana
"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?" — Chuck Palahniuk
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." — Rudyard Kipling
"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion." — Ivan Pavlov
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle." — Marcus Aurelius
"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one." — Albert Einstein
"I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't." — Robyn Davidson
"My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery." — Brooke Shields
"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R." — Christopher Hitchens
"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond." — Ken Follett
"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted." — Sammy Davis, Jr.
"The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken." — P. J. O'Rourke
"As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage." — Frances Conroy
"I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well." — Joel Osteen
"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy." — Gennaro Angiulo
"There would be no great men if there were no little ones." — George Herbert
"I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!" — Brooke Burns
"Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room." — Jan Schakowsky
"Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention." — Brandon Routh
"I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules." — Joan Jett
"Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up." — David Duchovny
"Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics." — Eric Shanteau
"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend." — Margaret Thatcher
"I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it." — Christopher Nolan
"I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own." — Louise Mensch
"I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm." — Emeril Lagasse
"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree." — Blaise Pascal
"Equality implies individuality." — Trey Anastasio
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know." — Lewis Carroll
"I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned." — Jim Broadbent
"While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting." — Jane Fonda
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom." — Charles Caleb Colton
"When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'" — Drew Barrymore
"Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence." — Henry Cabot Lodge
"You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it." — Laura Linney
"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it." — Maurice Maeterlinck
"I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine." — Hillary Clinton
"I get way too much happiness from good food." — Elizabeth Olsen
"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil." — H. L. Mencken
"Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't." — Pete Seeger
"You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form." — Colin Farrell
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together." — Edmund Burke
"The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys." — Rob Walton
"When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement." — Janeane Garofalo
"The first mistake in public business is the going into it." — Benjamin Franklin
"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows." — Emily Carr
"People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing." — Benjamin Carson
"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners." — Eric Hoffer
"Poetry is composing for the breath." — Peter Davison
"Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this." — Peter Agre
"I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again." — Berenice Bejo
"Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously." — Maggie Q
"Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness." — Marcel Proust
"These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that." — Steve Jobs
"I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting." — Molly Sims
"Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self." — Paula Cole
"All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." — Noah Webster
"The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is." — Jerry Saltz
"I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy." — Harvey Weinstein
"I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist." — Richard Gere
"I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food." — Erich von Stroheim
"You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer." — Cliff Martinez
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." — Ingrid Bergman
"The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79." — Jimmy Carter
"A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'" — Michael Eisner
"Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten." — Dick Gregory
"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind." — Washington Irving
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi." — Oprah Winfrey
"We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!" — Paul Prudhomme
"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation." — Meryl Streep
"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away." — Wilson Mizner
"Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things." — Jamie Bell
"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror." — Rabindranath Tagore
"And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else." — Chris Christie
"Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad." — Wayne Coyne
"What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day." — Paul Feig
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." — Mark Twain
"Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work." — Nancy Chodorow
"We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band." — Joan Jett
"I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up." — Sean Hayes
"The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive." — John Zorn
"I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all." — William Hung
"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings." — Lord Chesterfield
"This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you." — Lyndon B. Johnson
"Wisdom begins at the end." — Daniel Webster
"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing." — Jim Henson
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." — Oscar Wilde
"I haven't paid for anything since I became famous." — Melissa de la Cruz
"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." — John Dryden
"And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work." — Eddie Murray
"The best proof of love is trust." — Joyce Brothers
"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money." — Peter Drucker
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." — John F. Kennedy
"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person." — Brandon Boyd
"My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff." — Lily Collins
"Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom." — Tim Allen
"My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular." — Josh Radnor
"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." — Edmund Burke
"An educated people can be easily governed." — Frederick The Great
"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement." — John Charles Polanyi
"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?" — Victor Hugo
"Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking." — Tom Colicchio
"I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they have today over their jobs." — Mark Goddard
"The moment of change is the only poem." — Adrienne Rich
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." — T. S. Eliot
"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." — Arthur Koestler
"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away." — Demetri Martin
"And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country." — Erika Slezak
"Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe." — Emily Mortimer
"What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place." — Dominic Monaghan
"Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were." — Russell Baker
"Dreams grow holy put in action." — Adelaide Anne Procter
"But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn." — Emma Watson
"I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages." — John Mahoney
"I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys." — Laurie Holden
"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections." — James Martineau
"In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand." — Barbara Corcoran
"There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?" — Andrea Jung
"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others." — James M. Barrie
"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." — Adlai E. Stevenson
"Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich." — Gary Bauer
"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power." — Leonardo da Vinci
"I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream." — Victoria Principal
"Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter." — James A. Garfield
"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love." — Bo Bennett
"I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had." — Eva Braun
"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail." — Francis Quarles
"I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience." — Dave Navarro
"I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights." — Suze Orman
"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance." — Ruben Blades
"The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life." — Robin Roberts
"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?" — Deepak Chopra
"That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things." — Boris Becker
"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water." — Stendhal
"The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse." — Ralph Nader
"To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear." — Ricky Williams
"What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one." — Margaret Mitchell
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" — W. Clement Stone
"It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you." — Jason Derulo
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." — Nathan Hale
"Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life." — Jeanne Calment
"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation." — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come." — Dalai Lama
"Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments." — Christopher Hitchens
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses." — Hippocrates
"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." — Maya Angelou
"I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired." — Janis Ian
"The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me." — Ray Bradbury
"Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead." — Augustus Y. Napier
"It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that." — Diane Kruger
"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind." — Benjamin Disraeli
"An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten." — Constance Rourke
"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals." — Jim Rohn
"Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith." — Maria Monk
"I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing." — Jenna Bush
"Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy." — Larry David